French Spree Shooter is a Muslim Named Mohammed Who Fought With the Taliban in Afghanistan. Other Than That He Fits The Media’s ‘Far-Right’ Profile Perfectly

Following a siege which began early this morning, French police have arrested the prime suspect in the killings of three Jewish children; the father of two of the children, who was a rabbi; and three French soldiers.

The suspect has been named as Mohammed Merah, a French national of Algerian origin. According to reports in the French media, Merah fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and after being captured he escaped in a mass breakout from Kandahar prison in 2008.

The news that the killer is not just a Muslim but a veteran jihadist will prove hard to swallow for sections of the liberal media both in Europe and the U.S., which had been playing down the possibility of an Islamist connection, and pushing the theory that the gunman was a “far-right” (the media’s term, not mine) extremist in the mold of the Norwegian mass-shooter Anders Breivik.

The selection of Jewish victims clearly suggested either an Islamist or “far-right” connection. But while the identities of the soldiers – two were Muslims of North African descent and the third was a black man — certainly allowed for the possibility that the gunman was a racist, and possibly a neo-Nazi, it was equally likely that the soldiers were targeted because of French involvement in Afghanistan, and that their ethnicity was irrelevant.

However, the narrative which had gained widespread popularity — certainly in the left-leaning British and American media — in the past few days was that the gunman was a racist who had been driven to committing the murders by the emergence of immigration, and Islam in particular, as an issue in the current French presidential campaign. The possibility of Islamic terrorism had been barely mentioned.

We MUST keep trying to fit reality to what we see on TV, where every other cop show has at least one or two Nazi-hunting shows per season dramatizing the great danger and pervasive power that white fascists have in Amerikkka. Why even Justin Bieber helped us perpetuate this narrative in “CSI: Las Vegas.”

Even nominally conservative-leaning papers appeared eager to embrace the ‘French Breivik theme, with Britain’s Telegraph breathlessly reporting that the Toulouse shooter ‘may’ have filmed the killings using a camera recommended by the Norwegian. And of course the charged here in the UK was the BBC, which jumped on every emerging rumour, however weak, that supported the ‘far-right’ thesis.

I had the volume down so I don’t know exactly what was said but I noticed yesterday during Shepherd Smith’s 7:00 show on FOX they were clearly pushing the possible connection between the Toulouse shooter and Breivik. Which, of course, is the kind of thing that causes me to hit MUTE whenever Shep is on…

I was at my mother’s house and she had Shempy so I saw & heard his disgraceful performance. He gave his extra special drama to pointing out how it looked sooooo much like a far right crime. He is a disgrace.

To be fair, who is more “far right” than a Muslim extremist? I would say that extreme Islam is even to the right of the extreme conservative Christian right. The media called it correctly, they just have trouble admitting that Muslims are conservatives.

The problem here is the left/right political spectrum. Far better is to use a 4 pole square, with statist, liberal, conservative, and libertarian. This clarifies the real struggle, which is between statist totalitarians, and libertarians, with regular liberals and conservatives in between.

Fascists, Islamicists, Communists, and big gov socialists, all belong on the totalitarian statist end. That does not mean they agree with each other, because they all differ in what group should run the dictatorship they plan on creating, but all are essentially the same in having a big gov dictatorship, controlling every aspect of our lives, as their end goal.

The real opponents of all of these totalitarians are the libertarians, who want small democratic government, with maximum individual liberty. More moderate liberals and conservatives are in between, with liberals being more statist on economic policy, and conservatives being more statist on social issues.

I agree with you about the egregious Shepard Smith — the guy is simply toe-curlingly unwatchable.

Whenever he comes on I switch over to MSNBC or CNN, where the left-wingery is at least straight-up and unvarnished, unlike Smith’s particularly irksome brand of leftism which comes with a rancid coating of mincing earnestness.

If Fox insists on a lefty to decorate their newsroom, they ought to at least get one who’s got a pair — in fact they ought to trade Smith for Maddow, and be done with it.

“Large sections of the media got this one spectacularly wrong, but don’t expect them to acknowledge that fact. Instead, look for them to move move seamlessly from the ‘far-right extremist’ theme to asking what could have provoked Merah (post-traumatic shock broght on from his experiences in Afghanstan perhaps?).”

Actually, expect this to become a natural result of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Of course, there will be absolutely no mention of the incessant rocket attacks coming from The Strip. When westerners kill, it’s the West’s fault. And when Muslims kill, it’s the Joooooo’s fault. It’s Liberal Journalism 101. -FTFY

The media, the lefties, the democrats, the elitists can keep playing games as much as they want: the army of islamist monsters deployed all over the world will keep killing innocents and the public opinion will clearly understand what is happening and who is helping the islamist supremacists.

Mohammed probably complained that he once heard Rush Limbaugh’s program over in Afghanistan, and he was offended by the ” ‘serial murderer’ who was caught with “three bodies in the trunk,” and the incivility of ‘Slutgate.’

When the NYT writes something like, “No one is suggesting that the French presidential campaign inspired a serial killer to put a bullet in the head of an 8-year-old Jewish girl.” Be assured that the very next paragraph will start with a “But” and that is exactly what the rest of the article will do.

Ordinarily I would agree with you. Seems like no one can take a breath these days without someone being offended or simplying whining about it. But in this case I have to take exception. Part of the problem is that too many people get their information (what little they care to have, in some cases)from only the main stream media. I’m glad that people on the web, like the ones on this site, are pointing out the bias and outright dishonesty of that news source. I say keep up the good work, PJM.

Tom can’t help but to fall into this pattern of complaining about media bias instead of going to war on the cause of bias. After all he wrights for newsbusters. They should change the name to media complainers and change the mission of newsbusters to accurately reflect its message. Kind of like a National Enquirer to sensationalize communist democrat party scandals.

Tom, we are not going to win the idealogical war by backing up and going on defence.

When Nidal Hasan murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, the MSM spun the story that he did it because he was suffering from PTSD, not from combat itself, but just from listening to others tell stories, even though he had been blaring warning signs of his fanatical Islamic faith for years. They have no shame, and they will never report the truth.

I always wonder how the news media gets a story wrong. Aren’t they supposed to report the news as it happens, not to opine? Second, notice how the media has taken to identifying Muslim terrorists by their country of origin? This guy isn’t a Muslim, he is an Algerian. Now, you may be led to wondering if Algeria is at war with France…

As we learned from the bogus Duke Lacrosse Team Rape case (if not before), modern journalists are more interested in promoting “the narrative” than the truth or facts. Remember the famous line about the Duke case, “The narrative was right but the facts were wrong.” In other words, the narrative in that case was about the abuses of rich white guys against a poor black woman. The facts showed that none of it was true was besides the point.

Good point. It’s a little tough to wrap my head around “the narrative was right but the facts were wrong.” Must be a “new logic” that goes along with the new math Also, didn’t Dan Rather say something similar about the forged Bush National Guard documents?

1) As Jonah Goldberg has ably noted in “Liberal Fascism,” the Nazis are not far right, they are far left. It only serves the LSM’s deranged views to call the Nazis far-right because it tars those on the Right as being in the same league.

2) Don’t call it the MSM. Sarah Palin aptly named it the LSM, for Lame Stream Media, and that’s what it is, and that’s how I refer to it. In that regard Larry J @13 is on the money about the NYT’s motto. I’ve used that line myself, but it may not be original to me.

3) Finally, The Other Jim @11 is right. It is great that PJM exists (as well as several other such sites). There are now voices to counter the deceptive views (not news) of the LSM.

Palin’s mindless namecalling helps no one understand anything. She’s usually smarter than that, but stooped to use a leftist-style label, and it was a mistake.

It IS the mainstream media, and until the great majority of the US public stops getting its daily impressions of current events from it, mainstream it remains. Pajamas Media is a mote by comparison, but hopefully the trends will continue and the light will spread while the MSM self-destructs.

Thank you Jack for your spot on comment. I’d like to know specific attributes those who claim the “Cristian extreme” are like unto Islamists. A “Christian extremist” would be a monk or a nun, silently engaged 24/7 in prayer and listening for God, when not growing veggies in a garden, in complete seclusion from the world.

The ONLY way Jihadists should ever be released from prison is after their execution by firing squad. I’ve said it before: Guantánamo should be a processing facility, not a detention centre. Triage the captives. The small number of captives with low intelligence value that are unlikely to take up arms again should be deported back to custody of intelligence agencies of non-hostile countries (e.g. Jordan). High-value targets should be interrogated until their intelligence is exhausted, then shot. Low-value, but committed, Islamofascists should be executed straight away (perhaps it would be better simply to kill them in theatre, rather than going to the expense of shipping them to Cuba.)

Sounds like the French security have him alive under custody now. That is good. Looks like some French police were injured in the battle. I hope that they recover well from their injuries.

I know it would have been easier to just shoot him and loose any information he might have. He had helpers and connections and those must be discovered and hunted. The government of France, for all of its faults, like other responsible governments should respond with force to an attack on its soil against its citizens and soldiers.

When I first heard they were looking for and expecting the perp to be someone with neo-Nazi and white supremacy connections, I immediately thought of Nanny Bloomberg admonishing us to not jump to conclusions about the Times Square bomber who might well have been someone disgruntled by health care reform. And I do wish people would stop with the fiction that the Nazis were “right wing.”

Reality will always prevail, it has no choice because … well … it’s reality.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away.

The reality is that muslims are a plague on the world at this time in history and trying to blame everything on the right is a very bad policy. it is the right who will eventually save us all from islamic slavery because they know who the real enemies are. One must acknowledge the enemy before one can fight to save himself. The left is still trying to buy their enemies off with other people’s money no less.

Its funny (not really!) that Bill Maher can call Sarah Palin the ‘C’ word and neither Obama nor his followers are calling for him apologize. (not yet anyway) The ‘C’ word is about the most vile thing anyone can call a woman. Maybe that one million bucks he gave to his Messiah was atonement? Who knows?

Anyway Limbaugh calls that bimbo Fluck (SIC) and rhymes with ???? a slut after she all but gives the history of her sexual encounters and PROVES Rush is on target – she is a slut – and all hell breaks loose and all the libs want Rush off the air NOW! The “Oh but Bill is a comedian” crap doesn’t cut it in my book. Whats funny about that? And one of my golfing buddies mentioned that “Rush is the defacto leader of the Republican Party”. Sorry Bill – Rush isn’t the head of the RNC. Rush is an entertainer. “What”? I asked Bill, “He doesn’t get a pass”? “Nope”. Then neither does Maher – he needs to apologize. And Obama – ever the hypocrite – needs to ask that PAC to give back the money.

The collective MSM is the most two-faced bald-faced liars I’ve ever heard or read. Thank God for the internet where we can at last sift through the crap and get some semblance of truth. Too bad we didn’t have such a well of information 100 years ago. The MSM and it’s bastard child ‘Progressive’ movement would have been still-born.

As so many have said millions of times before – information is power. Would Kennedy ever have been elected with voters having known about his womanizing? More than likely Clinton would not have been elected had the internet been as accessible as it is today to the masses. The only thing more important than knowing the MSM are outright liars is having the truth at your fingertips so we can prove them the liars they are to friends and family. Grassroots movements rise up from contact in a person-to-person manner. There is no greater tool known to man than the internet for proving these bastards liars. Lets not allow Obama and his ilk to get a ‘panic button’ installed in the White House – or any other government offices that is capable of limiting or outright choking off our internet access. Once they get that cell phones are next. Choking us off one law at a time.

I wish that were true. We got Obama in the prime of the internet. The information on him was clearly available. We got him because we have addicted almost half of our population to money from the government. Obama promised to protect the outflow, so he’s in. It will be the same in November.

If we can’t stress fiscal reform (e.g. Fair Tax) over social issues (porn, marriage, abortion, anti-gay legislation, etc.) we will have yet another four years of Obama.

3 paratroopers have been killed, one gravely injured, the 4 were belonging to the same regiment that has been involved in Afghanistan.

If he hadn’t been caught last night, he would have committed two new murders on military today, and two policemen in the next days.

He wanted to put “France on her knees” (his words)

Yet there were 3 options, for his profile, a far-right neo-nazy, a islamist, a soldier that had been fired out the army for a crazy behaviour and that wanted a revenge. The profilers and crimes experts analysed his behaviour as a “serial sniper’s” of Breivik style, who gave himself a mission, like a “God” that has power on people life.

He was found because he left some prints on internet when he connected the first paratrooper that had put a advertising to sell his motrobike, and by a yamaha garage where the killer wanted his scooter to be repaint a few days ago.

Anyway, bravo to the Police and to the anti-terrorist section, they have made a good work.

He was a young with problems, (like the kind of youngs have in our parisian suburbs: drugs, robbries, rebellion) he tried to get enrolled into the army and was denied it a couple of times, then he fall under the salafist indoctrinment, and moved to Pakistan to be trained as a jihadist.

Thanks for the insights. I would add that the problems of youth, and other social problems, in France can be traced to liberal/socialist policies just like here in the U.S. But that’s another topic for another day.

“He was a young with problems, (like the kind of youngs have in our parisian suburbs: drugs, robbries, rebellion)”

…eliminationist antisemitism…

Jacques Chirak was probably the most odious, insufferable pol to infest the upper echelons of the French political apparatus in our lifetimes. However, he was right to complain about the smell and noise coming from the banlieues.

hmm Chirac was in charge when the anti-terrorist section was created, for the first terrorist attacks in Paris in the eighties and nineties, that avoided that France was hittet like London and Madrid in the 2000 years.

It seems that since, our government became too confident, and was n’t expecting such a action so soon.

He wasn’t the kind of person that was weak with the terrorists, he himself was a officer during the Algeria war, and knew all about death threat

He became the Bush administration scapegoat (and of course by extention of Israel) because he didn’t believe into the given reasons for going at war into Irak by the neo-cons, seems he was right, cuz Irak has become a islamist mess since !

Chirak objected to OIF solely because removal of Saddam Hussein meant cessation of his payoffs from Oil For Food, not because of any moral outrage. Still his “le bruit et l’odeur” remarks were on target, no matter how much I despise the man.

Anywhoo, it is not a surprise that a 20 year old bureaucracy has become ossified, fat and lazy over the years. Today’s threats are very different from a generation ago.

Until one minute ago Le Figaro said that the monster has not yet been captured.
They have tried to get into the apartment three times and he shot at them all the three times.
They think he could have two machine guns.
Looks like he has declared to the negotiators that he is very proud of what he has done.

1. When I heard that the French soldiers who were killed were of North African origin, right wing extremists were pretty low on my list of suspects. Much more likely to be a jihadist killing traitors. Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland weren’t murdered by Loyalist (Protestant) terrorists, they were murdered by the IRA (Catholic) terrorists – because they were regarded as traitors.

2. The Telegraph is a centre right UK newspaper, but it is not remotely surprising that it carries a left wing slant in many of its stories. It’s not quite like the Wall Street Journal – conservative opinion page journalists, liberal news page journalists. It’s just a question of money. No UK newspapers have the budget to finance independent newsgathering on international affairs. They simply copy and paste from the big boys in international news – the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP etc – which are all left wing.

Is it true that Janet Napolitano, the commissar of security in the new American State has put out an apb for all white christians who pay for their groceries with cash? Napolitano is convinced it is time to incarcerate all people who critize her or the democrat party and charge them with high treason. The son of Robert Kennedy had already suggested this be done to anyone who doubts the global warming Truth. The American Left is prepared to arrest the majority of Americans for the crime of being Americans; this should make the world safer and help protect those peace loving god fearing culture bearing Islamists.

All options were being discussed immediately.
How many jihadis turn up on a scooter with a helmet on,do the killing and run choosing not to blow themselves ?.
Eye witnesses said he had a camera around his neck.The Norway killer in his manifesto had called for that.
So what profile did he fit?

He has allowed himself to be arrested, hardley a holy warrior.
If he did train in Afghanistan then their not going to be very pleased.(maybe he didn’t graduate)
You are giving him to much credit,he is a brutal murderer and should be treated as such.

Just checked one of the articles at today’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. They mention that the shooter became “radicalized” after a “stay in the Afghan-Pakistan border” area, but that’s about as far as they go. There’s no attribution of any particular motive to the shootings; apparently Jewish schools in France are so thick on the ground that it’s pure happenstance that this yahoo decided to empty a magazine or two in front of one. The reporter then quotes someone who allows that the worst part of it is that this is a Frenchman who came from Algeria (huh?), and that will just fuel the stereotypes. Later in the same aritcle the author quotes, approvingly, some yob on the street who bemoans that it’s just a shame that folks have such trouble integrating into French society that they’re easy “victims” (granted, this is a translation of a translation, but the FAZ uses the word “Opfer”) of fanatics. Excuse me? Yeah, I may entertain a stereotype or two of Frenchmen as joyfully cooperating with a conquering bloodthirsty invader to slaughter their native Jewish population (places like Le Chambon excepted, as always), but I really have a hard time picturing this scum as some random Jacques from the boondocks who, through no fault of his own and in fact purely by accident, found himself one day hanging out with the jihadisti in Pakistan and — sacre bleu! — all of a sudden discovered that he’d become a “victim” of a fanatic.

“How many jihadis turn up on a scooter with a helmet on,do the killing and run choosing not to blow themselves ?.”

Ignoring the silly scooter and helmet qualifications…most.

Attacking from stealth and in disguise, and then melting back into the woodwork, is the preferred Muslim terrorist/guerrilla method. It happens, quite literally, every single day of the week, somewhere in the world.

Re: The MSM, “Don’t call it the MSM. Sarah Palin aptly named it the LSM,” etc.
Herewith, I humbly offer an alternative: the leftist media these days functions much like the old propaganda ministry/news agency of the USSR,Tass, and its newspaper, Pravda. The “MSM” should be called the “leftist propaganda ministry” – LPM – for short, as it describes them to a tee.

What will it take for these libtards to finally get it? No matter what atrocity is committed by Muslims, the MSM and lib politicians will blame the right wing extremists, tea party, neo-nazis or McVeigh type militiaman. When a Muslim is found responsible for an atrocity it NEVER has anything to do with that religion of peace, Islam. Will it take a bearded, turbaned Arab with a Koran in one hand setting off a dirty bomb in the other while screaming Allahu akbar? And videotaped while doing so? Don’t bet on it:

After 9/11, the movie based on the book Sum of All Fears was released with the Arab terrorist character replaced by a neo-nazi. The act of terror by Hassan at Fort Hood is only “an example of workplace violence” and not jihad! And who can forget Mayor Bloomingidiotberg after the attempted Time Square bombing, who blamed it on “Tea Party activists who are against health care reform.”

Why would they be pushing a “far-right” theory? In other words he was “extremely conservative”? Did he say he really, REALLY wanted limited government and lower taxation? Did he take out a billboard ad saying he was against social experimentation and that he actually respects the wisdom of his forefathers?

Or do you mean “right-wing fascism” that the left invented because they couldn’t brook the notion that their good leftist communists (Russia) were far too similar to the bad leftist communists in Germany and Italy?

Look at this new New York Times story on the standoff — it takes SIX paragraphs for the author to come out and say the guy is named Mohammed and linked to Al Qaeda.
The most it says before that is that the killer “traveled” to Pakistan/Afgahanistan and called himself a “mujahedeen,” or “freedom fighter” — which of course doesn’t yet force the stubborn reader to confront the fact that this was a Muslim terrorist.

Most Muslims are not terrorists but most terrorists today are Muslims. Blind Freddy can see that and knows why, yet the usual suspects denying any of that will read flimsier, cooked up computer printouts from climate models and immediately jump to the extremist conclusion we’re all gunna fry unless we agree to go back to the Stone Age. These people are pathologically insane self-loathers but why so many of them is the great imponderable?

Kill the West, you’ll kill the rest.
Happened in the 5th century AD; when the Roman roads fell to banditry, half the world from North Africa to India starved to death, or died fighting over the scraps.

Mongol invasions, fleeing the Black Plague that killed 90% of China (!), pushed the Nejjd Arabs into their own wave of war. Half the world died again.

A depopulated Europe made individual laborers a scarce and valuable resource.
It made slave labor scarce and valuable in Islam- slave wars and breeding soldiers were their answer to the Classical (literate) civilization’s response. (Renaissance)

UPDATE: One less Jihadist in the world, French police tried a forcible entry around 1030AM local time, he was in the latrene and came out shooting, then tried to jump out a window (first floor) where a police sniper took him out. Good one for the French

If the sandal fits – wear it. Talk about the gnashing of teeth, every time one of these cretins turns out to be a raghead the liberals must duck for cover under their blanket of denial; the denial of reality that is every liberal pinhead’s life-blood.

Terror – coming to a neighborhood near you starring people of muslim extraction. How comfortable will you feel in an elevator with a muslim looking person standing right behind you? What’s a muslim looking person you ask? Well, if you don’t know that then you deserve to die.